TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The European startup’s flagship claim for the data-ingesting bot-builder platform is it’s capable of automating up to 80% of customer support interactions. “We believe that customer service automation will be its own category in the future and so we are working hard to define what that means today.”

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Impact Hub

APRIL 23, 2021

To open an Impact Hub, like starting any business, takes courage – even more so in 2020, the year our world changed. From England to Bangladesh via Switzerland, we spoke to some of our fearless founders who opened an Impact Hub in 2020. Impact Hub Dhaka, one of the Impact Hubs that opened in 2020. Let’s start with why.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 30, 2020

We could not agree more with the International Women’s Day 2020 campaign theme for this year’s celebrations of female achievement: “An equal world is an enabled world.”. Twelve coaches and 11 mentors from adidas and Impact Hub delivered 580 hours of business support to 11 ventures throughout the program.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In Southeast Asia, for example, a growing list of startups is increasing access to mental healthcare and support. The startup’s app for mental health professionals, called ThoughtFullCare Pro, enables them to manage and scale their online practices. One of them, ThoughtFull , announced today it has raised $1.1

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Marco’s factoring product enables new companies to get started without having to put up the significant amount of collateral that banks are asking.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip, which intends to be the most customer-centric financial technology company in the world, enables users to do fair financial transactions from anywhere to anyone. trillion in 2020, citing Bank Indonesia’s data. . Interbank transfer is the most dominant payment method in Indonesia’s fast-growing digital economy.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

million in its seed round in 2021, with support from Philippine’s venture capital investor Foxmont Capital Partners. The new funding infusion gained support from diverse investors, including venture capitalists, family offices, and existing angel investors from the Philippines, the US, and Europe. AHG Lab had previously secured $1.1

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Emtech’s solutions also enable collaboration among multiple regulators, for an integrated regulatory environment that is key to the opening up of cross-border innovations and opportunities. The startup, which carried out a successful pilot in Africa, has signed five agreements with central banks in the continent and the Caribbean region.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Others let you do things like enable dark mode experiences on sites that don’t offer the feature, check for bias in news via Media Bias Fact Check , or watch videos in picture-in-picture mode on YouTube and other video sites. It’s dependent on what extensions you have installed and enabled, and how they’re configured.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

More often than not, SMEs face difficulties obtaining the necessary financing support due to prolonged waiting time or a lack of collateral. In 2020, Yang Zuobo, a 40-year-old farmer from China’s Jiangxi Province, took out his mobile phone and marked the perimeters of his paddy field on a digital map. According to Hao Jiang, 1.5

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

Launches Fellowship Grant Opportunity for Early Career Entrepreneurs Altitude Lab today announced that its incubating startups raised over $120M in early-stage funding since commencing operations in 2020. This fellowship allows us to support entrepreneurs in a much more personal way. Learn more at altitudelab.org or connect on X.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Founded as a startup by immigrants in New York in 1849, Pfizer developed fermentation technology that enabled the mass production of citric acid. i2E receives state support from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology and is an integral part of Oklahoma’s Innovation Model.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

As a result, categories that make up productivity infrastructure — cloud communications services, API platforms, low-code development tools, business process automation and AI software development kits — grew exponentially in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

With a focus on Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and India, selected startups receive £80,000 (~$100,000) in grant capital, six months of support and connections with follow-on investors. In 2020, all five countries had representatives in the accelerator. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Taneja, who has previously co-founded social payments platform Mypoolin, which was acquired by Cupertino-based financial services company Wibmo, and spent eight years in the fintech market, co-founded Decentro with Pratik Daukhane in 2020 — after personally facing all the problems he wants to address. million in seed and angel rounds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Easyship , the New York- and Singapore-based startup that enables e-commerce sellers to integrate with more than 250 courier services, announced today it has expanded its partnership with eBay to support eBay International Shipping, a newly-launched program. According to the Business of Apps , eBay made about $9.7

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 18, 2020

The largest early-stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin provides investment capital and business support services to emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers located in central and northern Pennsylvania. www.cnp.benfranklin.org. technology to mid-market producers across several manufacturing verticals. www.Werkberry.com.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Real-time location awareness of patients, staff, and medical equipment combined with Rideshare-like intelligence of task allocation, current path of motion, and optimal route determination enables smart, automated orchestration of patient care. million investment to help revolutionize healthcare efficiency worldwide.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3 million raised in November 2020 and led by Toyota Tsusho investment fund Mobility 54. million in a Series A extension round.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 16, 2024

January 12, 2024 ) – Applications for Delaware’s fourth annual Startup302 funding competition are being accepted now through January 29 from technology-enabled startups with high-growth potential and at least one founding team member from an underrepresented group. WILMINGTON, Del.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The demand for SaaS products that enables online transactions has dramatically increased during Covid-19, according to CEO of Upflowy Guillaume Ang. To help entrepreneurs and marketers, especially startups, boost conversion rates and user flows, Ang and two other founders, Matthew Browne and Alexandre Girard , founded Upflowy in 2020.

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Impact Hub

JULY 14, 2021

Delivered by Impact Hubs in King’s Cross and Munich, this edition supported 49 entrepreneurs in identifying and pursuing medium to long-term professional goals, while demonstrating entrepreneurship as a realistic and suitable option for personal and professional development and job market (re)integration.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 4, 2022

-funded programs in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras help farmers expand and diversify their operations, enabling them to provide for their families and feed more people in their home countries. Some families there lost their homes or livelihoods during devastating 2020 hurricanes. The COVID-19 pandemic further limited options.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Kilo’s platform and tools enable the local small and medium enterprises to manage businesses across multiple sales channels, such as Kilo’s app, Facebook and Zalo , and optimize inventory turnover to save costs and reduce risks over the long term. BukuWarung, a fintech for Indonesian MSMEs, scores $60M Series A led by Valar and Goodwater.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

For i2E, this crazy year of 2020 marks the year of our first potential unicorn. As of August of 2020, Crunchbase estimated the valuation of Alkami to be between $500,000 and $1 billion. As a venture firm, when you get your first billion dollar startup, you need to be talking about it—celebrating and giving thanks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” To support its continued growth, Wellthy just raised $25.5 Wellthy is the market leader in solving that and it’s a privilege to support their mission.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020. Now Vicente and the rest of the Yummy team will expand into more traditional markets with the necessary experience and support to overcome inevitable challenges that they will face.”. “Now This appears to be a contrarian bet, but Yummy has quickly become the No.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

As a piece in The New Yorker notes, Google’s algorithm prioritizes websites that use modern web technologies like encryption, mobile support, and schema markup. In 2020, Pinterest leveraged a quirk of Google’s image search algorithm to surface more of its content in Google Image searches, according to The New Yorker.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarantor, announced today that it has raised $75 million. “At growth of new customers from 2020 to 2021. At the beginning of 2020, before COVID, M-KOPA had an active seller base of 2,500.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Fueled by a zero-interest landscape in 2020, it has surged, giving rise to an ever-growing array of funds. growth from 2020 to 2021. long-term support at the earliest stages). Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The latest funding will support hiring staff and enable new data-as-a-service markets powered by quantum sensing, founder and CEO of Q-CTRL Michael Biercuk said. Q-CTRL’s vision has always been to enable all applications of quantum technology. Biercuk said that it surpassed its ten days sales target in 2.5

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The investment will enable Quqo to grow its team and customer base and expand its distribution network across the country. The firm’s B2B platform and SaaS tool enable store owners to browse the best product offers through a “simplified and accelerated procurement process.”. Quqo was launched in Vietnam in 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

And this time, they have an even bigger arsenal of capital to support their efforts. The pair founded the fund in 2020 — read more about it here — and their backgrounds with NEA and Uber, respectively, and closed their first fund of $140 million last year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

That’s what makes him excited to support a company like Shabodi. Shabodi raised $3.375 million in seed funding to enable enterprises, system integrators and telecommunications companies to accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation applications on 5G. This is the pair’s second time working together.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2023

This platform enables construction companies, operators, and contractors to identify the most effective construction plans by leveraging proprietary optimization algorithms. “We are excited to support the Frontline team as they continue to drive innovation in the construction industry,” he quoted.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Ninja Van , a Singapore-based logistics startup, has closed a $578 million Series E round to support its operations infrastructure and technology systems growth. This round comes after its $279 million Series D round at about $750 million of valuation in May 2020. million active shippers and around 100 million recipients. said Mr.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Sales in this area topped $100 billion in 2020 , driven by the 48 million dogs and cats that were adopted over the past three years. The big story in 2020 was that everyone needed telehealth services for themselves, and we saw that transfer to pets and then exacerbated by the industry,” he added. Pets are big business.

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